Word: things
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...cinematic merits, it seems unlikely to win even passing mention at any of the international film festivals. But in the New Senate Office Building last week, "0-7" was boffo. The movie, as billed by an aide to Senator Strom Thurmond, is "a vulgar, filthy, subjective thing of a woman disrobing down to her transparent panties...
...Russians were expected to try every tactic to bring the Czechoslovaks to their socialist senses. For one thing, they would no doubt remind the Czechoslovaks that 80% of their trade is with the Soviet Union, which could easily cut off the wheat and raw materials that the country depends upon. For another, they would probably dangle before Dubček a hard-currency loan of about $400 million that he needs for economic modernization. The Soviets might even revive demands that Russian troops be stationed on Czechoslovak soil, hoping that such a garrison could permanently discourage a Prague walkaway from...
...forces, prohibiting them from making any more speeches, giving interviews, writing articles and putting together petitions that are critical of the party. At the very least, says Harvard Kremlinologist Adam Ulam, the Russians seek "some sort of declaration from the Czechoslovak leaders that they won't let the thing get too far, that they will not tolerate real democracy in the sense of real competition for leadership...
...from the Mekong River border with Laos, has a complement of 6,000 American airmen, two fighter-bomber squadrons and two tactical reconnaissance squadrons. Like the other Thai bases, it was considered a safe haven; as one U.S. serviceman put it not long ago: "It's a big thing when you don't have to go to bed wondering if somebody's going to lob a mortar shell...
...reasonableness. The present supercompetition between building owners, with all their pride in towers, will eventually give way to the recognition of common concerns. And it is this comforting faith in reason that makes Owings predict: "We are going to reach the point where environment planning will be the supreme thing in this country. It will be the equivalent of the railroad and highway booms. Then perhaps we can change and begin to build as did the Romans, the Greeks, the Persians, the Egyptians?begin to build a real environment that is a lasting investment rather than something to be destroyed...